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Amazon Starting Black Friday Deals Super Early
Amazon Unveils Black Friday-Worthy Deals Earlier Than Ever
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Amazon Gift Cards -- exp 18 Dec or WSL
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10-04-2021, 06:49 AM | #3 |
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I love it!
They're "excited to help us." How can one feel bad things, when a company is excited? Plus, they want to help us! I love it! |
10-04-2021, 12:32 PM | #4 |
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Plus! The supply chain is likely to be further disrupted the closer we are to the real holidays. So, buy now! This message isn't unique to Amazon, it made the news this weekend as well.
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Since Amazon and a lot of the other big retailers still use USPS directly, plus UPS & Fedex's hybrid delivery (they deliver the package to the closest USPS office, then USPS handles the final stage), this holiday's shipping is likely to turn into a major disaster for people who don't buy early. Also, if you're planning to ship gifts to friends and family directly, ship them early as well. If you wait until December, they might not arrive on time. Deliveries are going to get congested and back up over time, so by December it'll probably be too late. |
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10-04-2021, 05:02 PM | #7 |
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I see you can get Paperwhite 4s cheap again. $75 for the Twilight Blue, 8 GB version (and again $10 more for the other colors?). 32 GB versions (all colors) are $90, which is only $5 more than the 8 GB versions, except for the Twilight Blue one(?). (Same price at Amazon and Best Buy — though Best Buy is sold out of one of the colors.)
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10-07-2021, 11:39 AM | #9 |
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And gift cards can be thoughtful too if you know the person well - you can pick a favorite restaurant of theirs, or sports store if they are into that, or a night at a hotel chain if they like to travel - something that gives them flexibility, but shows you still thought about them.
One of the best wedding presents my husband and I got was a bunch of Souplantation (salad buffet restaurant, known outside California as Sweet Tomatoes, now tragically defunct as a result of Covid...) gift cards from one couple. Souplantation had been integral to our developing relationship, since we ate there every week after the games in the volleyball league we played in, and then that morphed into eating there on weekends, and then a couple of times during the week as well. And we were still eating there years later when we finally got married. So those folks had known us a long time, and their gift showed it, and was really appreciated too... |
10-07-2021, 04:19 PM | #10 | |
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A Playstation Plus or Xbox Live Gold membership are also good if they have the appropriate consoles, as those include free games every month for the duration of the membership. (I'd suggest asking if they have problems with 3D sickness in games first. As someone that does, most of the free games are unplayable. It's not too common, but it does happen.) |
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10-07-2021, 04:34 PM | #11 |
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Another benefit of giving gift cards is that you won't hear anyone say:
"hey, isn't that the gift card I gave you last year?" |
10-08-2021, 07:42 AM | #12 |
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10-08-2021, 01:29 PM | #13 |
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With physical ones there is the risk of them misplacing it, finding it years later and realizing the store went out of business in the meantime, though. (Yep, I've managed to do this before. )
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10-08-2021, 03:37 PM | #14 |
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Nothing says "I really care about you" more than e-gift cards and e-greeting cards
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10-08-2021, 03:39 PM | #15 |
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BTW, has anyone been able to get the $10 credit from the gift card promo in post #2?
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